Rhode Island
CurrentS 771
The law restricts physical access to personal internet-enabled devices during the school day.
- Jurisdiction
- Rhode Island · State / DC
- Policy status
- Effective
- Implementation phase
- Current
- Requirement
- Required
- Grades
- All K-12
- Audience
- Students
- Learning evidence
- No student-learning claim
- Instrument
- Statute / enacted law
Dates & implementation
Legal start
Aug 1, 2026
Effective August 1, 2026.
A legal effective date can precede school implementation. This record documents policy intent or requirements; it does not independently confirm delivery in every classroom.
Exceptions & instructional scope
IEP/504, health, multilingual access and emergency provisions.
Funding & support
Funding details not confirmed
Dedicated funding and current award availability are not established in this collection. This does not mean no funding exists.
Evidence & source location
Rhode Island §16-21-43(a)–(d)
Effective August 1, 2026; school-issued devices are not covered by the personal-device rule.
Review history
Reviewed against official sources
Source availability checked Oct 4, 2026: Retrieval unresolved. This is separate from verification of the policy claim below.
Source review date recorded in database: 2026-10-03
2026-10-03 — Carried forward from the source-linked baseline; topic, grade and evidence-type inventory reviewed. Individual source was not re-opened in this update. 2026-10-04 — Substantive source review: Reconciled the existing October 3 substantive personal-device audit (Text reviewed) with the research record. The audited model, timing and exceptions replace the unchecked baseline description. This reconciliation is not a new source reopening.
Record ID: RI-2025-DEVICE-001
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